A great typography resource with a web focus is http://webtypography.net/ .. lots of great analysis and information about applying traditional typography practice to the web.
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:34:56, Jeff Seager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Type is fascinating, both in its history and in the variety of its > creative implementations. I've worked in media (mostly print) since > I was 14 years old -- even longer if you count delivering newspapers > -- and now that my hair is thin and gray, I own dozens of books on > typography. > > I'd like to see a system that could redesign typography "on the > fly" while still allowing end users on the Web the control they > should have over local presentation. There are issues that will have > to be addressed -- probably in the visual browsers or in the > operating systems themselves, but maybe elsewhere. I don't think you > can simply amend the UTF-8 specification to include new glyphs for > ligatures, for example. But maybe, in the long run, you can. > > It's a brilliant and noble dream to enable more elegant typography > on the Web, but I'm having a hard time visualizing just how it would > be as practical as it would be beautiful. That could be a limitation > in my own design, eh? > > Am I a typographic Luddite? I don't think so, because historically > typographers have always struggled to accommodate the limitations of > new media. Imagine the typographic sacrifices (and gains) made in the > transition from monastic scribes to the Gutenberg press, or in > transitioning Chinese and Japanese calligraphy to print. I think we > can count on something being lost in the translation to this new > medium, as well, and salvaging that "something" may be tough. > > But, as I said, I'd like to see it! What's the next step necessary > to move from lamenting the problem of inelegant typography to > resolving it? I can't imagine any better candidates for that job > than a bunch of interaction designers. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24248 > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Matt Nish-Lapidus work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
